Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ever have an alarm clock? I don't mean one of the new-fangled, nickel-plated kind, but one of the homely, old-fashioned sort, with a big iron hammer for the alarm, hands with circular rings near the ends, and a long, solemn, methodistical face, having an expression of chronic melancholy, as of a confirmed dyspeptic: did you ever have one of these? No? Well, you have missed a valuable experience. My own knowledge of these articles came in a practical way, as follows...
Boxer's room was next to mine. I must get out of the house in the morning without waking him. No danger of my not being up in time, for I had my alarm clock to wake me. He didn't have any. At nine o'clock that evening I complained of a headache and went up to my room. Boxer had a knowing look, as I said good-night; he grinned with mock commiseration. This maddened me. I would show him, &c. My blood...
...alarm, on going to bed, I thought I noticed a malicious twinkle in the old clock's sombre countenance. It may have been fancy, though, on my part...
Under the midnight, till the alarm was heard...
...mistake; they are not old, - they have got beyond the boundaries of time, and like an alarm-clock they point continually to a fixed time years and years ago when their ideas were aroused. Since then they have remained stationary. They do not die, - they dry up (how hard it must be for some of them to do this!) until, like mummies, they become remarkable as specimens...